25 HOUSTON ZIP CODES: A COMMUNITY LEVEL PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS

Abstract

This analysis captures trends from specific areas of Houston, including two key influencers, (1) city government is in business for itself, and (2) lack of job development is a specific area resulting in unstable resource pools and a substantial toxic disconnect with elected officials and stakeholders. The prevailing jurisdictional edicts produce a steady diet of temporary fix initiatives. And declining public safety and health services. Surveys conducted by Charity Productions over the past nineteen years with homeowners, renters, and local businesses, provided great insight from a bottom-up perspective. These surveys become a part of the community institutional bank of knowledge on how gaps in service delivery consistently fails. The survey results overtime has revealed a fill in the blank puzzle of rotating priorities. Any four areas are laced with companion subset issues depending on the neighborhood. We are at the dawn of a New Age to find the missing links reducing disparity’s grip on underserved neighborhoods. This analysis uncovered a translation of service delivery DNA markers to an operational vehicle that reduces inequities. A change in the operational aspects will improve the change of the culture and climate of service delivery to underserved neighborhoods. Changing the trajectory of research from a bookshelf, of potential new research grants into a functional data transformation center of exchanges with sustainable field-tested program outlets.

In this new age will introduce new terms, redefine old terms and clarify mis-defined phrases. These proclamations will be accomplished by using an arrangement of proven and accepted practices starting with evidence-based approaches to problem solving and service delivery at the neighborhood level listed as hard to serve.